Dr Sarah Bodman's Outputs (28)

Read with me - A psychometric collaboration (2024)
Book Chapter

Sarah Bodman discusses her artist's book Read With Me and the experiments that were made towards its making.

50 years - Artists' books exhibitions in the UK & EIRE compiled for Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books (2024)
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Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books accompanies the exhibition of the same name, celebrating Center for Book Arts’ 50th Anniversary.

The publication features an introduction by Robbin Ami Silverberg, essays by Carole Naggar and Kinohi N... Read More about 50 years - Artists' books exhibitions in the UK & EIRE compiled for Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books.

Imagined worlds (2024)
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turn the page has, over a period of ten years (2012-2022), introduced the public to the wonders of the wider book arts genre, and artists and collectors to each other, through its showcasing events, symposia and related exhibitions. To celebrate thos... Read More about Imagined worlds.

Pandora’s Hieroglyphic Primer (2023)
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A response to the artwork: for RE:Making - A Documentation of Work by Angela Lorenz

With essays from over 70 scholars, collectors, librarians, curators, and journalists on book artist Angela Lorenz's work from 1989 to 2022. Includes a reflection f... Read More about Pandora’s Hieroglyphic Primer.

Spending time within books (2021)
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In my work as a researcher in the field of artists’ books, I encounter new books on a daily basis. Artists send information on their publications to go into the Book Arts Newsletter or the biennial Artist’s Book Yearbook, or write about their work fo... Read More about Spending time within books.

‘What if?’ books (2019)
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The Correlations project presents some examples of artists’ books as a method of enquiry, a means for us to ask questions about their relationship with independent publishing through content and context, and consider both the history and continued pr... Read More about ‘What if?’ books.

Foreword (2017)
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Catalogue Essay by Sarah Bodman for The Polar Tombola, A Book of Banished Words by Nancy Campbell.

Livres d'artistes et micro-éditions, perspectives sur l'avenir du livre à l'ère de la publication de masse (2016)
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The proceedings of the international conference "An atlas of desktop publishing : what roads to what issues ?" Aimed to start thinking in the fields of art and graphic design of a territory, border to border , in France as in the rest of the world. B... Read More about Livres d'artistes et micro-éditions, perspectives sur l'avenir du livre à l'ère de la publication de masse.

Views across the pages (2015)
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This chapter is a short overview of some examples of contemporary books by British artists inspired by experiences, travel and memories of France.

Shuffle and cut: Editing and re-presenting material in artists’ books (2014)
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The book is an experimental exchange of out-of-context, repurposed text and image.

Artists as 21st century explorers of the book (2014)
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We now live in an age where, according to the writer and artist Radoslaw Nowakowski, e-paper has now overtaken p-paper, but what does that mean for book artists? And what kinds of books are they making?

Access to available technology allows artis... Read More about Artists as 21st century explorers of the book.

Os “livros” são eléctricos: ‘Are 'Books' Electric? Some possibilities for the artist's book in the 21st Century’ (2013)
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As Ulises Carrión stated in The New Art of Making Books in 1975: a book is a sequence of spaces. Over the last 36 years, the book as a physical space has undergone some dramatic changes in concept, format and reception. A book is still a sequence of... Read More about Os “livros” são eléctricos: ‘Are 'Books' Electric? Some possibilities for the artist's book in the 21st Century’.

Artists’ books: Document, communicate, disseminate (2013)
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Commissioned essay for Café Royal’s Words Project 2013

A manifesto for the book: Book - artist's book - artist's publication - book art? (2013)
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This paper was based on the results of a two-year research project led by Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, March 2008-February 2010. This project investigated the context and future of the artist's book... Read More about A manifesto for the book: Book - artist's book - artist's publication - book art?.

Some thoughts on the artist’s book in the 21st century (2013)
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The most ambitious and diverse survey of the book arts published to date, Book Art Object 2 serves as a record of the third biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium, "The Fate of the Art," held in Berkeley, California in 2011. The event showcased conte... Read More about Some thoughts on the artist’s book in the 21st century.

Building with books (2013)
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Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here assembles artists' responses to the tragic loss of a cultural and intellectual hub in Baghdad that occurred in March 5, 2007, by a bomb explosion. This important and timely exhibition, organized by Beau Beausoleil and... Read More about Building with books.

The beauty of the book (2013)
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Commissioned essay for the King St. Stephen Museum Fifth International Artists’ Book Exhibition, Hungary, May 2013

Life, the universe and everything: The artist's book as a means of theoretical, political and social consideration of the natural world (2013)
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Peer reviewed conference paper given at the IMPACT 7 Multi-disciplinary Print Conference, Monash University, Australia, September 2011.

Nature and the landscape surround us and we depend upon them. Many artists explore our relationship with the na... Read More about Life, the universe and everything: The artist's book as a means of theoretical, political and social consideration of the natural world.

New pages: Celebrating the book as a democratic multiple in a variety of 21st century forms (2013)
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This book is the edited survey of current thinking and innovative practice in contemporary publishing, which was presented at BOOKLIVE! International symposium in London in June 2012.

This two day event brought together some of the key theorists,... Read More about New pages: Celebrating the book as a democratic multiple in a variety of 21st century forms.

Imaginary shadows: Fictional documentary photography in artists’ books (2012)
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Invited chapter in 'Photography and The Artist’s Book'.

There is a renewed interest in the relationship of photography and the artist's book, both as a work of art and as an alternative means of exhibition and dissemination. There is also a notab... Read More about Imaginary shadows: Fictional documentary photography in artists’ books.